they're marching up & downnthe streets of every townntheir boots clamp on the groundn& it's a terrifying soundnncause soon these soldiers will break down our doorsnit's the orders handed downn& when they find us hidden herenthey'll beat us to the groundnthey'll hand the shovels in the woodsnfor us to dig our gravesn...& you say Jesus Savesnnthey'll put us on the trainsnthey'll pull tight to the reinsnthey'll strip us in our painnthey'll bash us in our brainsnn& some may find a waynto survive through the coldnthey'll seperate the familiesn& execute the oldnthe res of us will starve & dienthe sickness comes in wavesn...& they say Jesus Savesnnthe bodies burn each daynbut we're freezing anywaynand there's nothing left to saynin this good ol' U.S.A.nnthe day our armies marched on usnwe swore they'd gone insanenthe president ordered his soldiersnto clean up the fruited plainsn& from sea to shining seanin the land of feudal slavesn...the papers read Jesus Savesnn& when they sort the populacenour dignity turned to shamenprotection is the omnibusnthe families are the samenthe soldiers drown in alcoholnbut no one misbehavesn...they think that Jesus Savesnnand it could happen herenin a nation full of fearnthe prefabricated tearsnare cried out through the yearsnnand what's the cost of our discontentnwe're dissidents that scream dissentnwill we let the pigs break down our doorsnor fight 'em back, against the anti-poornthese darkened days will corner us alln& stuck behind the penitentiary wallsnwe'll have to choose our death or fightnwe'll have to stand up for human rightnnstand up, for human rightsnstand up, it's death or fightnnliving the lies & the laws of the landnlocked down in a police statenwhile all of the pigs with the power and moneynget fatter from our fatenlook at the world 30 years agon& the future's plain to seenthey smother us all in so many liesnthrough the media / t.v.nnstand up, for human rightsnstand up, it is death or fight